Our worker task for emails

Email worker

    desc 'Work email queue'
    task :emails => :environment do
      `if [ ! -d "pids" ]; then mkdir pids; fi; echo "#{Process.pid}" > #{Rails.root}/pids/emails.pid`
      Minion.job "emails" do |args|
        logger.info "[#{Time.now}] Recieved queued item"
        begin
          UserMailer.deliver(args)
        rescue Exception => exception
          logger.info "Error, #{exception}"
          raise exception
        end
      end      
    end